According to President Karzai, the Obama administration said that the Taliban are "not our enemies." If not them, who? United States Marines and soldiers like Marine Reserve Maj. Jason Brezler or Lance Cpl Greg Buckley (below)? It would seem so by the treacherous actions of the Obama administration.

There's a stunning new development in the murder of Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr. Atlas readers are long familiar with the horrible murder of Lance Cpl. Buckley. The murderer of this great American hero in one of a string of insider attacks was Aynoddin, the 19-year-old "tea boy" of Afghan District Police Chief Sarwar Jan. He was immediately captured following the shooting of Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr and three of his fellow Marines. "I just did jihad," Aynoddin proudly shouted over and over.

"District Police Chief Jan, who supplied the assault rifle, most likely helped plan and certainly approved the attack was detained. The following day the Taliban claimed responsibility for the murders. So why then am I still fighting tooth & nail to get justice for my son? In the weeks following his death The Marine Corps concluded their investigation, classifying it as a "Homicide". They then turned the investigation over to Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Since the day NCIS took over I feel we have been stonewalled. And to be perfectly honest I'm running out of patience. ... I met with an NCIS investigator just last week, and all he seemed interested in was what I knew, & how I found out! Then he told me I should fill out a Freedom of Information Act request form if I want to learn the results of their investigation, but it could take a year! Through our own investigation we learned Chief Jan was released & The Pentagon wants to turn Aynoddin back over to the Afghans. Why? Because Our Commander in Chief thinks we must remain "culturally sensitive" to the needs of the Afghanistans! Screw Them! I know this administration thinks we'll just go away but that will NEVER happen. I will not rest until I know why our soldiers were ordered to be unarmed, but Afghans were permitted to carry weapons on our bases. I will not rest until they explain why they allowed Chief Jan to be released. I will not rest until Aynoddin is tried as the terrorist that he is. And I certainly will not rest until they admit these Insider Attacks are in-fact Terrorist Attacks.

Back in August I reported that a Marine who warned of this jihadi and a possible insider attack threat on Buckely and his fellow soldiers was facing career's end.

Then-Capt. Jason Brezler meets with leaders in Now Zad, Afghanistan, in 2009. He faces the possible end of his career for passing classified information to deployed Marines about a police chief later connected to an insider attack. (Albert F. Hunt / Marine Corps)

My dear friend, Bev Perlson, received this humble request from her son, recipient of the Bronze star:

My Son served with Marshall Edgerton in the 82nd Airborne Signal battalion. Marshall died on December 11, 2003 in Ramadi. Marshall fought off 3 insurgents and kept a truck loaded with an IED from reaching their intended target, the mess hall. He made the ultimate sacrifice to save his Brothers. John 15:13:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Marshall left his wife Amy and a Daughter and a Son. I ask that some of you on this email list will please consider a donation toward a college fund for Marshall's children. The fund cited at the bottom of the article above is incorrect. The memorial address spells Marshall's name with only one "L" The Correct address to donate to through paypal is marshall.edgerton.memoral@gmail.com.

The war on Americanism and our basic founding principles continues unabated by the Obama administration. How long before these same traitors find the American flag offensive? It represents the same thing as the Navy Jack -- individual rights: the founding principle of this once-great nation.

Navy SEALs Ordered Not to Wear Navy Jack “Don’t Tread on Me” Patch on Uniforms Due to Association with "Radical Groups" By Time Brown, The Freedom Post,

The Navy Jack is the flag flown by United States Naval Vessels. It's
motto of "Don't Tread on Me" is emblazoned on a Red and White Striped
background with a rattlesnake stretched across it. The flag has a long
and revered history in America's Navy spanning back to the time of our
country's fight for Independence. However, Navy SEAL commanders are now
banning the historical symbol. The question is, who is behind the ban?

An amendment to the Navy code called SECNAV Instruction 10520.6 says that as of May 31, 2002 all ships were to fly the flag through the duration of the "War on Terror."

During my two deployments to Iraq, "Don't Tread on
Me" was a phrase seen on nearly every uniform and platoon space —
including mine. From patches to flags to large paintings on concrete
barriers, our commanders themselves wore the insignia on their sleeves —
until now.

Perhaps this is why so many of my former teammates felt compelled
to send me the email below. They may not be able to expose the
administration's travesty, but I can. The email, dated October 22,
reads:

ALL:

WARCOM and GROUP TWO/ONE have pushed out the uniform policy for NWU III and any patches worn on the sleeve.

All personnel are only authorized to wear the matching "AOR"
American Flag patch on the right shoulder. You are no longer authorized
to wear the "Don't Tread On Me" patch.

Again the only patch authorized for wear is the American flag on the right shoulder. Please pass the word to all.

Add Atlas Shrugs to the list that the US military is monitoring and watching. Atlas Shrugs, a news site dedicated to reporting on the global jihad, is now considered a threat by the US military. This is a sad, sad day for freedom.

I don't promote hate, I expose it. Obama's Department of Defense has made the war on free speech a priority, but this is breathtaking. If you told me on 9/12/01 that the voices of freedom would be designated the enemy, I would have had you Baker-acted.

Is the US military getting their marching orders from Hamas groups like CAIR and ICNA? Clearly, they took Ward Churchill's class.

As a fierce and passionate patriot, I am deeply disturbed that freedom lovers are listed among known terror groups -- this is the poisonous fruit of the stealth coup I have reported on for years.

Clearly a congressional innvestigation is warranted. Who is running the military these days?

I don't know where the US army is headed with this, but it ain't
good. Truth is the recognition of reality. And these fantasists are in
the thrall of one mass circle jerk.

There are no jihad or Islamic-related groups on this massive list.

Here is an excerpt from the email -- read the "Army "Domestic Hate Group" email here:

The following is an email written by a lieutenant colonel at Fort
Campbell in Kentucky — advising three dozen subordinates to be on the
lookout for soldiers who might be members of “domestic hate groups.”

This email was obtained exclusively by Fox News. Names have been redacted.

Subject: Domestic “Hate Groups” (UNCLASSIFIED)

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Caveats: FOUO

Leaders,

Many events have been taking place across the country – just want to
ensure everyone is somewhat educated on some of the groups out there
that do not share our Army Values.

When we see behaviors that are inconsistent with Army Values – don’t
just walk by – do the right thing and address the concern before it
becomes a problem.

We need to make sure that we maintain our standards – starting with reception and integration.

On March 29, 2013, CNN reported
that the FBI had arrested former U.S. soldier Eric Harroun in Virginia, at a
hotel near Dulles International Airport. Harroun was charged with illegally
using a weapon on behalf of Jabhat Al-Nusra (JN), a U.S.-designated terrorist
group in Syria; according to the U.S. designation, JN is an alias of the
Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) group.

According
to the report, in January 2013 Harroun entered Syria to fight the regime of
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and posted on the Internet photos and videos
of himself holding RPGs and other weapons.

Harroun
also maintained a Facebook account, under the name "Eric Omar
Harroun." His background image, dated March 2, 2013, shows him with an RPG
in his left hand and a rifle in his right. The account has 361 Facebook
"friends."

Another
photo, posted March 19, shows him wearing a military uniform and smiling. A
comment on the photo says: "May Allah... assist you my brother. My prayers
is [sic] always with the Syrian mujahidin."

In
another photo, a masked man believed to be Harroun is shown standing in a room
with an AK47 on his right shoulder.

According
to Harroun's Facebook page, he was born June 11, 1982, on Elephant Island in
Antarctica, has never been married, and has no children. The page states that
he worked as a Mortgage Loan Officer from 2006 to 2008 at Artisan Mortgage
Company in Phoenix, AZ. Among his interests he lists Masjid Annur Islamic
Center in Sacramento, CA, and notes that his inspirational figures include Che
Guevara, British MP George Galloway, George Washington, and Yasser Arafat.

His
most recent "likes" include a Russian pro-Syrian revolution page
("liked" March 24), a "Solidarity for Free Syria" page
("liked" March 23), and Liwa' Omar bin Al-As ("liked"
January 4). The jihadi group Liwa' Omar bin Al-As is part of the Islamic Syrian
Front, a collection of 11 resistance groups whose aim is to topple the Assad
regime and establish an Islamic state. Also among his "likes" are
many mainstream Western Facebook pages, such as a television series, music, and
so on.

Ok, let's see, the destroyer in the White House jacks up our deficit up to an unfathomable 16 trillion dollars, enslaving our children and grandchildren to service an impossible debt -- check! But that's just the tip of the destroyer's agenda. Dare to implement minuscule spending cuts -- punish the American people (no more White House tours for you!) and those who protect us.

So Barack Obama and his Administration are saying that it is more important to spend $750mm (just approved) on jets and tanks for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas than it is to provide education for those young men and women whom he would send in to fight the massive war against non-Muslims he is currently fomenting in the Middle East. Make no mistake: that this is what is happening here.

And it's not just our soldiers, it's an attack on the military itself. There is no better recruiting tool for armed forces than tuition assistance. "Every commercial, every brochure, has money for college written all
over it … recruiting us into the Army and then taking away one of the
main reasons we joined is a bit hypocritical....."

Obama is the most profoundly immoral chief executive in the history of this nation.

The Army has suspended its tuition assistance
program, citing fiscal challenges. The Army's announcement follows a
similar message affecting the Marine Corps.
WIESBADEN, Germany — The Army announced Friday it is suspending its
tuition assistance program for soldiers newly enrolling in classes due
to sequestration and other budgetary pressures.

“This suspension is necessary given the significant budget execution
challenges caused by the combined effects of a possible year-long
continuing resolution and sequestration,” Paul Prince, an army personnel
spokesman at the Pentagon, wrote in an email to Stars and Stripes. “The
Army understands the impacts of this action and will re-evaluate should
the budgetary situation improve.”

The Army’s announcement follows a similar move by the Marine Corps.

The Army’s tuition assistance program was available for troops to
complete a high school diploma, certificate program or college or
master’s degree. Under the program, the Army paid 100 percent of the
tuition and authorized fees charged by a school up to established limits
of $250 per semester hour or credit hour or up to $4,500 per fiscal
year.

“The Secretary of the Army has approved the suspension of Tuition
Assistance effective 5 p.m. (Eastern Time) on March 8, 2013. Soldiers
will no longer be permitted to submit new requests for Tuition
Assistance,” read a statement posted Friday on the GoArmyEd.com website.
“However, Soldiers currently enrolled in courses approved for Tuition
Assistance are not affected, and will be allowed to complete current
course enrollment(s).

[....]

“Every commercial, every brochure, has money for college written all
over it … recruiting us into the Army and then taking away one of the
main reasons we joined is a bit hypocritical,” said Barina, who added
that as an 11-year Army veteran, it’s his junior troops he is concerned
about. “There are so many things that cost a lot of money and don’t need
to take place that are not getting the ax.”

A defense university silencing the truth about the enemy is, in fact, aiding and abetting that very enemy. The university should have its credentials pulled.

Bravo! Thank G-d for patriots like Lt. Col. Dooley taking on the Hamas goons of CAIR. He shouldn't have to, of course, but it is indicative of how compromised and infiltrated our armed forces have become.

A top United States counterterrorism expert, who taught a course that familiarized military officers with the U.S. war against radical Islamists was fired from a military college
and had his course removed from the curriculum, is retaliating against
university officials, according to a U.S. police counterterrorism expert
on Friday.

The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC),
a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Mich.,
reportedly filed a formal complaint with the president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education
(Commission) challenging the accreditation of the National Defense
University (NDU) on behalf of Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley (U.S. Army) .

The police source, Sean Hanrahan, told the Law Enforcement
Examiner that the officer/instructor was informed the course materials
would be revamped to exclude references to Islam
and use terms such as extremists or militants. In addition, the course
instructor, Lt. Col. Dooley, was removed from the faculty permanently
for telling students that practitioners of Islam are responsible for terrorism.

“One can only wonder how much protection students who
practice Catholicism and Christianity would receive from this
Administration and its media sycophants — such as TV host Bill Maher —
when they verbally attack Christians,” said former police commander and
military officer Mike Snopes.

According to a source, the National Defense University’s Joint Forces Staff College course
included a slide-show that told students — mostly battle-hardened
officers — that the U.S. is fighting a life and death battle with
Islamists and that “we need to recognize that the U.S. and its allies
are at war with Islam.”

JFSC
educates military officers and other national security leaders in joint,
multinational, and interagency operational-level planning and warfare,
counterterrorism and other subjects.

According to the Law Enforcement Examiner source, it’s
believed a complaining soldier, whose identity is being protected, may
be a pawn of some of the Muslim groups such as the Council on American
Islamic Relations (CAIR) or Muslim Advocates, who are currently suing
the New York City Police Department for its training and police tactics.

“This politically correct
nonsense would be laughed at if we had a reality check now and then. On
the one hand, the majority of terrorist attacks worldwide are
perpetrated by radical Muslims who actually apply the teachings of the
Koran. Anyone who studies the history of Islam, especially within the
last two hundred years will discover what America faces is not new,”
said Hanrahan.

“The CAIR group is
considered by some to be a front-group for radical Islamists — several
of whom are currently in prison or deported — and frequently supports
certain Democratic politicians who do their bidding. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan is a perfect example,” Hanrahan alleges.

This is Obama's idea of victory in Afghanistan. Our sons and daughters........so much collateral damage in the Obama's Post-America.

Here's just one story. One terrible story replayed over and over and over.

The killer of this great American hero in another green on blue attack was Aynoddin, the
19 year old "tea boy" of Afghan District Police Chief Sarwar Jan. He was
immediately captured following the shooting of Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr and three of his
fellow Marines. "I just did jihad," Aynoddin proudly shouted over and over.

Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr.'s father shared this:

"District
Police Chief Jan, who supplied the assault rifle, most likely helped
plan and certainly approved the attack was detained. The following
day the Taliban claimed responsibility for the murders. So why then
am I still fighting tooth & nail to get justice for my son? In the
weeks following his death The Marine Corps concluded their
investigation, classifying it as a "Homicide". They then turned the
investigation over to Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Since the
day NCIS took over I feel we have been stonewalled. And to be perfectly
honest I'm running out of patience. ... I met with an NCIS investigator just last week, and all he seemed interested in was what I knew, & how I found out!
Then he told me I should fill out a Freedom of Information Act request
form if I want to learn the results of their investigation, but it could
take a year! Through our own investigation we learned Chief Jan
was released & The Pentagon wants to turn Aynoddin back over to the
Afghans. Why? Because Our Commander in Chief thinks we must remain
"culturally sensitive" to the needs of the Afghanistans! Screw Them!
I know this administration thinks we'll just go away but that will
NEVER happen. I will not rest until I know why our soldiers were
ordered to be unarmed, but Afghans were permitted to carry weapons on
our bases. I will not rest until they explain why they allowed Chief
Jan to be released. I will not rest until Aynoddin is tried as the
terrorist that he is. And I certainly will not rest until they admit
these Insider Attacks are in-fact Terrorist Attacks.

Gd bless this father and his family. We must assist Greg Buckley Sr get justice.

Sunday evening I had the great honor of receiving the Patriot of the
Year Award before a packed house of well over 200 people at the nation’s
oldest Republican Club, the Queens Village Republican Club. I received a
beautiful plaque that also featured a clock, which I thought apropos in
light of our AFDI pro-freedom ads that just ran on 240 clocks
throughout the New York subway system, and a citation from the New York
City Council recognizing me as Patriot of the Year.

The event was illuminating in many ways. One speaker insistently
emphasized that all religions teach the same core values, and another
heralded our “nation building” efforts in Afghanistan. But then
something happened that showed all that up as the politically correct
nonsense that it is: the club presented a Supreme Sacrifice award to the
family of Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr., who was murdered by one of our
Afghan “allies” while working out in the base gym after a long day of
work “nation building” among those allies in Afghanistan. Cpl. Buckley’s
father spoke with heart-rending intensity, his voice breaking, about
his love for his son, and revealed what his son had told him before he
was killed: that the Afghans were not like Americans. They were
cold-hearted; they had no gratitude for the Americans no matter now much
the Americans did for them; and – most wrenching of all – that he
didn’t think he was going to get out of Afghanistan alive.

Cpl. Buckley was murdered two days before he was scheduled to have
come home. An Afghan police captain handed his weapon to his “t-boy,”
his 19-year-old male companion who had followed him everywhere and done
his bidding (in all things) for at least seven years. The Americans,
including Cpl. Buckley, were unarmed: they were not permitted to carry
weapons on the base, lest they antagonize our Afghan “allies.” The
Afghans, in contrast, strutted around with AK-47s. The t-boy used his to
shoot Cpl. Buckley in the chest and murder several other Americans
before he was subdued.

Buckley’s father found all this out on his own, because our military
wouldn’t investigate. He discovered the serial number of the AK-47,
tracing it to the Afghan captain, and asked American authorities to
arrest and prosecute him. The Americans did nothing. The murderer walked
free; to have apprehended him would have again offended our Afghan
“allies.” Buckley’s father demanded justice. And he deserves justice.
But he has been met with silence.

I wish I could say that I listened to this grieving, weeping father
(a tough guy) in amazement, just as most in the audience did. But I was
not amazed. This is what I have been warning against for years. The
story of Lance Cpl. Buckley is a horrific illustration of exactly why
the Obama administration is so wrong, and so criminal, to ignore and
obfuscate and deny the reality of jihad and the truth about Islam. Our
Afghan policy is based on the core assumption that Islam is peace and
that the Afghans are grateful for our “nation building” and happy to
help us. Anyone who dares to suggest that the Afghans view us as filthy
kuffar who need to be killed, converted to Islam, or subjugated is
denounced as a racistislamophobicantimuslimbigot. But what it really
amounts to is putting a deadly American-made weapon into the hands of an
enemy whose sole objective is to destroy our very way of life and kill
anyone who gets in the way of that jihadi objective.

Cpl. Buckley’s death shows that our official stance on Islam is not
true. And that it is dangerous and evil, and is putting our American
troops in harm’s way needlessly and wantonly. If Cpl. Buckley had gone
into Afghanistan with realistic rules of engagement and armed with an
honest exposition of the reality of Islam, he would never have been
unarmed in the presence of AK-wielding jihadists. His commanding
officers wouldn’t have dared to command him to do such a thing. They
wouldn’t have been pretending that these jihadists were our allies in
the first place. And they would not be pouring American blood and
treasure into a futile and self-defeating attempt at “nation building”
among people who will never respect, never accept, and never be grateful
for the supreme sacrifices of heroes like Cpl. Buckley and so many
others like him.

Cpl. Buckley’s family deserves justice. There should be a full
congressional investigation into his death, and into why his murderer
was not prosecuted. Immediate action should be taken so that there are
no more Americans who are sacrificed to our national denial about the
reality of jihad. The mission in Afghanistan is a useless exercise in
politically correct fantasy. It has to stop. It has to end. Doesn’t
anyone in Washington love America anymore? It’s time, it’s long past
time, to tell the truth about Islam, to teach it to our soldiers and to
realign our foreign policy in light of reality, however unpleasant. To
do anything less would be national suicide.

Say what you want about George W. Bush, but he consoled every family
that lost a loved one fighting for our freedom. The Buckley family, on
the other hand, has been met with a wall of silence from the Obama
administration that mirrors the cold-bloodedness of Cpl. Buckley’s
killer.

Bless them and keep them safe. We owe them everything.
A cover of "Call Me Maybe" performed by
US Army Infantry Soldiers in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Original by
Carly Rae Jepsen. Directed, filmed, and edited by the troops as a morale
boost for our Soldiers here and our families/FRG back home. See you in
just a few more months, and thanks for all your support!

American soldiers praying before a Thanksgiving meal.

UPDATE: Much thanks to my colleague Bev Perlson for this:

I
have attached a list of organizations sent to me by Jessica Allen, wife
of Wounded Warrior Chaz Allen (above). All I can say is what a woman
and what a hero! At my Thanksgiving day table, my family will give
thanks for Brave American families such as theirs that exemplify the
sheer will and great spirit of the American Warrior! It was an honor to
receive Jessica's email.

Jessica
was kind enough to send this list to me so that those of us who want to
support organizations that truly do make a difference in our Heroes
lives, we would have a good guide. I know there has been some
controversy regarding Wounded Warrior Project recently, but in Jessica's
words "they are very visible at the hospital." I understand too they
are having second thoughts regarding the "gun" controversy!

I would add to her list http://www.buildingforamericasbravest.org/,
an organization of the Stephen Siller Tunnell For Towers Foundations
and the Gary Sinise Foundation. They just completed a smart home for
Marine Sgt John Peck from the state of Illinois and this is one of
several!

There is one organization I would like to highlight and this news comes from Skip Hermann here in Illinois: www.woundedheroesfund.net

In Skip's words "97 cents of every dollar goes directly to the troops!!" ( 4 yrs in a row now !!)

What an outstanding organization, it really doesn't get any better than that!

Another top General spied on, smeared ...... ruined. This is a takedown of the military. They went after and smeared the troops, now the brass. Slash and burn.

Politico: Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the four-star U.S. commander of the war in
Afghanistan, exchanged thousands of “potentially inappropriate” emails
with Jill Kelley, the Tampa woman who claimed to have been harassed by
the ex-mistress of former CIA Director David Petraeus, a senior defense
official told POLITICO. Allen, 58 and married, was nominated in October
by President Barack Obama to be Supreme Allied Commander Europe and
commander of the U.S. European Command. That nomination is now on hold,
but Allen will remain commander of U.S. forces and the NATO
International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan, the
official said. The FBI on Sunday turned over to Pentagon
lawyers 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails exchanged by the two from 2010
to 2012.

This whole episode is reminiscent of the fate of Hitler’s Minister of
War, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg. Blomberg was one of the most
sycophantic supporters of Hitler in the entire German military; it was
he, not Hitler, who originated the loyalty oath that German soldiers
took to Hitler personally, rather than to the German state. But by 1938
he had fallen out of favor for opposing (on tactical, not philosophical
grounds) Hitler’s plans to start wars across Europe and thereby seize
huge expanses of territory. Hitler was able to force him into early
retirement and exile after his marriage to a much younger woman who
turned out to have a sordid past, including posing for pornographic
photos and possibly even prostitution.

After ridding himself of Blomberg and the Commander-in-Chief of the
army, Werner von Fritsch (who was at the same time accused of
homosexuality), Hitler thoroughly reorganized the German military,
bringing it firmly under his control – and that had been the objective
all along, not any genuine concern for the moral character of Blomberg
or Fritsch. Are Petraeus and Allen the Blomberg and Fritsch of the Obama
Administration?

"David Petraeus and the New Style of American Politics," from PJ Media today...

David Petraeus resigned his post as director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Friday, citing an extramarital affair.

”Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White
House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to
resign from my position as D/CIA,” Petraeus said in a statement to CIA
staff. “After
being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by
engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both
as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours.”

I am in the Army so I'm not Allowed by the military to publicly support political movements, and I'm certainly not allowed to say anything about our President in public (remember the Marine who suffered a court martial and discharge for speaking out against Obama on his FB?). However, I wanted you to know I am amazed, and uplifted, by your fight.

In college paper on on the Muslim Culture. I read the Qoran and writings from dozens of Islamic authors, male and female. From that day forward I tried, in vain, to tell my family and friends of the threat Muslims around the world posed to our Freedom, that they have an agenda to take over the world by any means necessary and that a war was coming. Everyone poo-poohed me and my predictions. I was being Islamiphobic and racist. My reply was always, "We'll be at war with Islam soon. When it happens, no matter the outcome, the only reason I'll ever put on a burqa is to hide my guns under it." People looked at me with dismay, discomfort and sometimes amusement. I was Cassandra screaming in the streets and no one believed me.

On Sept 11, 2001 the very thing I predicted came true. When I turned on the television and saw the World Trade Center on fire, and heard reports of a plane crashing into the building, I turned to the person next to me and said, "That's no accident. This is a terrorist attack". And several moments later, another plane plowed into the building as we watched.

I don't like being right. Mostly, I don't like having to keep my views on Muslims to myself. However, with my career, I have no choice. I have since joined the Army and deployed to Afghanistan; I have learned to speak both Dari and Pashto; I have walked the fields of the Arghandab River Valley and the Hindu Kush; I have eaten with many Afghanis from every walk of life and career, from ANA/ALP commanders to interpreters to truck drivers. And please believe me when I say, WE NEED YOU TO KEEP FIGHTING MORE THAN EVER! We need you to lead the fight against Islamic Extremism. We need You to be the voice of reason and Freedom in America to stop this tide!

Thank you for speaking out and speaking for those of us who cannot. Thank you for being a defender of Freedom and the Bill of Rights. Please keep up your efforts! Those of us who cannot join you now on television, or post our names, are still with you. We will fight on a different front, and soon I think. We will fight in the streets and on the hills and in the valleys, but we will fight. We will not fight with words but with our training, our weapons and our hearts. To the very end. No matter the cost. We will defend the freedom of Americans to our last breath.

The Obama adminstration doesn't think dying is enough. If you survive the jihadis, the green-on-blue attacks, the mandatory Ramadan dinners, perhaps you'll face Obama's military tribunals. Here, US soldiers face disciplinary action for sending boxes of Qurans and other religious books to a base landfill for
incineration after discovering that Afghan detainees were using the books
to relay messages and share "extremist writing."

WASHINGTON—The U.S. military is expected to discipline nine service
members on Monday in connection with two incidents that sparked
widespread outrage in Afghanistan, including the burning of copies of
the Quran at one of the country's largest military bases.

The punishment, which doesn't include criminal charges or jail time,
falls far short of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's calls for a public
trial, and it remains unclear how Afghan officials and the broader
public will respond to decisions that could be viewed as relatively
lenient.

In addition to the incident of the burning of copies of the Quran,
service members will face discipline in connection with a video of four
Marines urinating on dead militants.

A military investigation of the Quran burning found that six U.S.
soldiers at Bagram Airfield were "derelict in their duties" when they
sent boxes of Qurans and other religious books to a base landfill for
incineration in late February, according to two U.S. military officials.

While the military concluded that there was no ill-intent on the part
of the American soldiers, the investigation also determined that they
didn't follow proper procedure when they ordered the destruction of the
prison library books, officials said.

"It was a series of mistakes," one military official said on Sunday.

The investigation also found that a lack of trust between U.S. and Afghans at the base fed into the errors.

The incident sparked days of nationwide riots that left more than three-dozen people, including two U.S. soldiers, dead.

Afghan officials said the burning of the Qurans—Islam's holiest book—
showed the

Muslims
view the Quran as the sacred word of God as relayed to the Prophet
Muhammad, and burning the books en masse at a military incinerator was
seen as an especially disrespectful affront.

President Barack Obama apologized for the incident and Mr. Karzai
called for the American soldiers to be put on public trial in his
country.

At the time, military officials said the books were sent for
destruction after they determined that Afghan detainees were using them
to relay messages and share extremist writing. Afghan leaders briefed on
the initial investigation challenged that claim and said the books
recovered from the landfill contained innocuous signatures from the
detainees, not inflammatory notes.

[...]

On Monday, the U.S. military is also expected to announce punishment
for three of the Marines shown in a video urinating on the bodies of
slain Taliban members.

The video, which became public in January after it appeared on
YouTube, showed four Marines urinating on the corpses of militants.

"Have a great day, buddy," one of the Marines is heard saying.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta condemned the video, which was
believed to have been filmed in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province
in the spring or summer of 2011.

Investigators quickly determined the Marines in the video were from
3rd Battalion 2nd Marine Regiment, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Investigators concluded that the leadership of the Marines' platoon
failed to create a proper "command climate," allowed discipline to slip
and dishonorable behavior to occur.

In addition to disciplinary action against the Marines shown in the
video, the Corps is taking action against the officers in charge of the
unit, according to three military officials. Officials said that
investigators found other questionable incidents in the unit, although
none as serious as the urination incident, and other evidence of a
breakdown in leadership.

Officials said one or more company-grade officers are likely to be
punished later. The battalion commander of the Marine unit isn't
expected to face discipline.

The punishments against the Marines, and likely for the Army
soldiers, are expected to be career-ending, blocking service members
from re-enlisting,

Gd bless these men and women who risk serious retribution. But they do, and they do it for their nation.

Intelligence and Special Operations forces are furious and frustrated at how President Obama and those in positions of authority have exploited their service for political advantage. Countless leaks, interviews and decisions by the Obama Administration and other government officials have undermined the success of our Intelligence and Special Operations forces and put future missions and personnel at risk.

The unwarranted and dangerous public disclosure of Special Forces Operations is so serious — that for the first time ever — former operators have agreed to risk their reputations and go ‘on the record’ in a special documentary titled “Dishonorable Disclosures.” Its goal is to educate America about serious breaches of security and prevent them from ever happening again.

Use of military ranks, titles & photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement of the Dept of the Army or the Department of Defense. All individuals are no longer in active service with any federal agency or military service.

This is fantastic news. Every American must fight for this country. Obama is a disaster. The military has suffered and seen firsthand the consequences of Obama's anti-freedom policies. Now the elite team military has a voice. Americans are starting to take charge.

Today, Ryan Zinke, an ex-Navy SEAL and Montana State Senator, announced the launch of Special Operations for America, a political action committee dedicated to “the election of Mitt Romney and like-minded candidates.”

“Navy SEAL’s, Special Operations Personnel and Veteran’s across America have been outraged since Barack Obama conveniently took credit for killing Osama Bin Laden for political gain,” a statement announcing the launch of SOFA said. “The active duty military has no voice as they are forbidden to publicly engage in the political campaign process and it is career suicide for senior military leaders to speak out against the President.”

Mr. Zinke, who has frequentlyslammed the president’s handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, reiterated his criticisms of the operation.

“The President has failed and he is jeopardizing the safety of our troops, their families and our National security for political gain. Obama has exposed the identity of special operations units, leaked classified information, and limited the rules of engagement of forces on the ground,” said Mr. Zinke. “For those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, it is a call of duty to take back America from a Commander-in-Chief that is incapable of understanding the sacrifices that have been made for the values that have made America great.”

Mr. Zinke has served in the Montana State Senate since 2009. According to Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans for Congress, a political action committee dedicated to electing Republican vets, Mr. Zinke was a member of SEAL Team Six, the elite unit that killed Bin Laden, from 1990 until 1993 and from 1996 until 1999. He held several titles including Task Force Commander. In 2004, In 2004, was named “Deputy and acting Commander, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM” in that capacity he “led a force of over 3500 Special Operations personnel in Iraq in the conduct of 360 combat patrols, 48 Direct Action missions, and hundreds of sensitive operations” and “was responsible for killing or capturing 72 known enemy insurgents and terrorists.”

Obama is never going to lift a prayer mat to help Michael Behenna, but Mitt Romney might. Romney must be urged to act and right this godawful miscarriage of justice. Behenna is a hero; he shot a known al-qaeda killer. We are all safer because Lt Michael Behenna fought for us. Here is part of the statement issued by Michael Behenna's family and supporters:

On July 5th, 2012, we learned that the majority on the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF), in a 3-2 split, upheld the unpremeditated murder conviction of our son 1LT Michael Behenna. Needless to say, we are very disappointed in the decision of the CAAF.

The CAAF had accepted two issues in Michael’s case (1) the improper self-defense instruction, and (2) Governments failure to disclose exculpatory evidence to the defense, ie. MacDonell’s expert opinion. We know from reading the 2 dissenting judges opinion that the arguments by Michael’s lawyers were very compelling. In fact, the entire court agreed that the self-defense instruction was erroneous. However, the majority court ruled Michael used deadly force by threatening the terrorist with a gun and had no right to self-defense in his given situation – a fact strongly disputed by the dissenting judges – so the majority ruled the self-defense instruction written by trial judge Steven Dixon, even though incorrect, did not prejudice Michael’s defense. The entire court agreed the expert opinion of Dr. MacDonell should have been turned over to the defense, but the majority dismissed the potential Brady violation as irrelevant to Michael’s defense, as MacDonell’s opinion only strengthened Michael’s version that he was attacked, but Michael had no right to defend himself.

The CAAF basically ruled that Michael made a mistake by taking the terrorist to a culvert for an unauthorized interrogation and in the process gave up any right to defend himself no matter what happened in the culvert (note that no police officer in America loses their right to defend themselves in similar situations.) If you recall, the military prosecutors originally prosecuted Michael for executing the terrorist in the culvert, and no evidence or even any mention of Michael losing his right to self-defense was presented to the jury (panel). Michael had no opportunity to present a defense to an allegation of loss of right of self-defense, because that was never the theory presented by the prosecutors. As stated in the dissenting opinion, “was it murder, or was it self-defense.”

Obviously we were one vote away from having Michael back home with us, and the dissenting CAAF judges widely diverged from the majority, which gives us hope that perhaps Michael’s legal battle is not over. Michael remains in prison today for a mistake he made in a combat zone while facing a terrorist who had killed at least two American soldiers and for whom the military had issued a kill/capture order. The court did not believe that Michael executed Mansur as originally charged and for which he was convicted. We will continue to pursue all legal avenues including the Supreme Court, and in search of relief for Michael, we will also contact officials who can understand the perspective of what Soldier’s encounter in a war zone and how dealing with terrorists cannot be equated to a drug deal gone bad in America.

Michael and our entire family want to thank all of those supporters who have taken their valuable time and effort to help Michael’s cause and we know that your continued support will lead to Michael’s ultimate release. We will begin a campaign to contact President Obama and presidential candidate Mitt Romney to take notice of Michael’s case and request they use their influence to pardon Michael or reduce his sentence. The people’s voice must be heard in a case where a Soldier faced his enemy in a war zone. Although Michael has told us he was disappointed in the ruling, he remains a man of integrity and character, and will not be broken by this latest setback. He said that when he walks through the doors of Ft. Leavenworth military prison to freedom he will be a much wiser man than when he first went in.

There is something horribly wrong in America when a soldier is jailed for killing the enemy. The criminalization of our heroes is the liberal wet dream and the goal of the enemy, Islamic supremacists. Indeed, they make common cause of their hatred of the good.

Lt. Behenna shot a known al qaeda killer on the battlefield, a terrorist the Army had actually issued a kill/capture order for before they realized he was already dead.

... we will not give up the fight. It is our hope that Congress will hold hearings on the Army’s Catch and Release policy and the current ROE’s that limit our soldiers and Marines ability to defend themselves sometime this fall...... I have come to believe that the only way the Army will release Michael from prison is for the American public to demand it. In that regard I am once again asking for your help. The Savage Nation has been so supportive of Michael, helping us with his legal expenses, and writing letters of encouragement to him. Now I need their voice. I need the voice of the American public to demand his release.

Michael is an exceptional young man and would never have been involved in the criminal justice system but for his attempt to interrogate Mansur. Michael’s character and professionalism has shown through even through this difficult time. When he was pending charges of premeditated murder he was never placed in pre-trial confinement. He continued to work in Iraq and when he redeployed with the 101st Airborne Division in November 2008, he lived off post in Clarksville, reporting to work every day at Ft. Campbell. One of his assignments during that time was to work on President Bush’s security detail when President Bush visited the 101st Airborne Division just before Thanksgiving of 2008.

Short of a presidential pardon, which isn’t likely in this day and age, it appears Army Ranger 1LT Michael C. Behenna will remain behind bars at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., until he turns 40 years old. The Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces in Washington, D.C., has upheld the 29-year-old Edmond, Okla., native’s conviction stemming from a May 16, 2008, shooting in Iraq of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda operative.

Clockwise from upper left: Michael’s family; Michael; Michael as a youngster; and Michael and his girlfriend, Shannon.

The sad news arrived shortly after 6 p.m. Central Thursday, almost 11 weeks after the five-member CAAF panel heard Lieutenant Behenna’s final appeal of the verdict that found him guilty of unpremeditated murder in the shooting death of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda operative in Iraq.

It is beyond comprehension how multiple levels of the military justice system were able to reconcile the lieutenant’s conviction with the fact that the government’s own expert witness reached the conclusion that the lieutenant acted in self defense — see this post and this post for more details — but they did. And by a 3-2 margin.